How to use little red riding hood on thinkpad keyboard

This red button is called the pointing stick, also called Little Red Riding Hood. It plays the role of moving the cursor. Same as touch screen. Press it with your hand, then tilt it in the direction you want to move, and you will find that the cursor on the screen moves with it.

This little red riding hood is Lenovo's patented design. It is usually used with the left and right buttons on the panel. Because it has no click function, it can only be used to move the cursor. At present, most users are not used to using red hat, because its response speed is usually slower than that of touch screen.

However, compared with touch panel, Little Red Riding Hood has its own advantages. For example, when operating with a touch panel, because the width of the panel is limited, when the finger slides to the edge of the panel, if the cursor does not reach the target to be moved, it will slide again. When operating little red riding hood, as long as you keep holding it down, you can lean in this direction. The three buttons on the touchpad are the left mouse button and the right mouse button, and the middle button is used for little red riding hood.

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Because the position of Little Red Riding Hood is in the middle of keyboard letters G, H, V, B and N, and it is just in the middle of index finger and thumb when typing with both hands, you can only use Little Red Riding Hood with thumb and index finger; Put your index finger on the red little red riding hood and press it gently in the direction where the cursor wants to move. The greater the pressure, the faster the cursor moves, otherwise it will be slower. In short, the action is simple. You can practice a few more times and get familiar with it.

The two buttons in the red box of the keyboard represent the functions of the left mouse button and the right mouse button respectively. Press two buttons with your thumb, and then move the cursor with little red riding hood, and you can get the complete mouse function;

Before the touchpad appeared, Little Red Riding Hood+two buttons could replace the mouse, and the hand could not be separated from the keyboard. Therefore, after many people get used to it, it is smoother to play than using touchpad+mouse. During the business trip, the office efficiency is very high. For a long time, big brands such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell have added pointing stick function to notebook computers.